Te Paekiomeka Joy Ruha ONZM QSM (21 February 1931 – 16 December 2011)[1] was a prominent Māori leader and member of Māori Women's Welfare League.
Of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāti Porou descent, she lived most of her life in Wellington.
[2] Since 1986, she had been kaumātua of Te Herenga Waka Marae at Victoria University of Wellington.
[3] She was a lifetime member of the Māori Women’s Welfare League and a foundation member of Te Atamira Taiwhenua, the national Maori advisory group to the Department of Internal Affairs.
[5] In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori.